I think it is worth noting that an Etruscan ancestry apparently had a
certain cachet - Maecenas, as I recall, was supposedly proud of it - I
think the quote is in Horace - and the Claudians were pointedly Sabine.
This is slightly off the topic, but I think we should note that find fairly
frequent r
>At 09:09 PM 7/5/98 +, Helen Conrad-O'Briain wrote:
>>I am not sure if we can discuss Cleopatra as a post-colonial situation. I
>>wonder if Cleopatra was simply worked up from a pre-existing fear of
>>foreign influence as a alternative focus of angst (to distract the Roman
>>mind from the fear
